Background
Radiotherapy is one of the main local treatment methods for malignant tumors, about 70% of cancer patients need radiotherapy, and 40% of cancer patients can achieve radical treatment effect through radiotherapy. The radiation sources commonly used in radiotherapy include radiation generated by radioisotopes and high-energy x-rays, electron beams, proton beams, neutron beams and other particle beams generated by various accelerators. The radiation therapy usually used includes both long-distance and short-distance radiation therapy, the radiation must pass through normal tissue to reach the tumor tissue during the long-distance radiation therapy, the dose of the tumor radiation is limited by the dose of the normal tissue around the tumor radiation, and the radiation with different energy and the multi-field radiation technology are required.
Tumors grow without a fixed shape, and malignant tumors are generally poorly differentiated and irregularly shaped. The high-energy X-ray has unique physical characteristics, the maximum dose is clearly positioned at a certain depth under the skin, after the area is built, the dose exponentially decays along with the increase of the tissue depth, and the percentage depth dose increases along with the increase of the ray dose, the irradiation field area and the source skin distance, so that the uniform distribution of the high-dose area of the whole tumor in the three-dimensional direction cannot be ensured. The morphology of individual tumors also changes as radiotherapy progresses, requiring real-time adjustment of the target volume, revised dose, or irradiation pattern, since small morphological changes may move high dose areas into surrounding normal tissue that should not be irradiated, and precise targeting may become precisely damaged or missed.
Because of this, the radiation therapy does not have the best biological effect throughout the treatment, and therefore a multi-beam selection of the best biological effect is performed.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the above-mentioned deficiencies of the prior art, the present invention provides a multi-beam selection method with optimal biological effect, which utilizes the advantages of multi-beam irradiation to make and adjust the multi-beam radiation dose and plan in real time by monitoring the tumor morphology changes during the radiation therapy in real time, so that the tumor tissue has the optimal dosimetry distribution during the whole radiation therapy.
The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:
a method for selecting a multi-line beam with optimal biological effect, comprising:
firstly, a Cone beam CT (Cone Beam computer tomogry, CBCT) machine is used for real-time online acquisition and monitoring of the position and the shape of a tumor focus in the radiotherapy process;
secondly, calculating the distance from a radiation source to the center of the tumor tissue in different three-dimensional states in real time according to the tumor shape monitored by the CBCT system, and irradiating the tumor tissue by radiation beams of different energy grades (6,8,10 and 12MeV) according to the depth table of the maximum dose point and the 50 percent dose point of the high-energy X-ray;
high energy X-ray maximum dose point and 50% dose point depth (cm)
Thirdly, converting the acquired data of the distance from the radioactive source to the center of the focus and the change of the radioactive ray beam into corresponding dose distribution data, and drawing a distance-dose distribution curve chart and a fitting function relation on a computer to obtain an optimal ray selection and dose distribution mode.
Fourthly, inputting the summarized optimal ray with the optimal biological effect and the dose distribution function into the radiotherapy system, applying the optimal ray and the dose distribution function to the next radiotherapy treatment course, and timely adjusting the scheme according to the treatment effect.
The method specifically comprises the following steps:
firstly, determining correct positioning according to surface marks, tumor images and the distribution of surrounding healthy visceral organs, performing multi-angle scanning irradiation by adopting a CBCT (cone beam computed tomography) machine, and acquiring and monitoring the position and the shape of a tumor focus on line in real time;
secondly, extracting the characteristics of the tumor focus region by using an algorithm based on wavelet transform, and classifying the characteristic values of the tumor image extracted by using the method by using a neural network to obtain distance change data from a radioactive source to a tumor tissue center;
thirdly, according to the distance change data acquired in the earlier stage, the radiation beams corresponding to different energy levels (6,8,10 and 12MeV) are converted into corresponding radiation dose distribution data; analyzing according to 70% of the obtained limited ray dose distribution data points to obtain a function with optimal ray selection and dose distribution, and performing function verification by using the remaining 30% of the data points to ensure that the error is small enough and the function has the optimal biological effect of the multi-energy ray;
and fourthly, inputting the function determined by verification into an operating system for clinical application.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention carries out multi-energy beam scanning in real time according to the change of the position and the shape of the tumor focus in the radiotherapy process, analyzes and calculates the optimal ray and the dose distribution mode with the optimal biological effect, and is beneficial to improving the success rate of radiotherapy and the recovery rate of patients.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts based on the embodiments of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1, the present invention provides a technical solution: a multi-line bundle selection method with optimal biological effect concretely comprises the following steps:
(1) the CBCT machine is adopted for multi-angle scanning irradiation, the wavelet transform-based algorithm is used for extracting the characteristics of the tumor focus region, and the specific process is as follows:
by using
Representing a tumor image expansion function
And scale factor s:
function f (x) continuous wavelet transform at scale s and x:
to ensure the reconstruction characteristics of the tumor image data, the scale parameters are sampled into a binary sequence {2 }j}j∈ZTo obtain a sequence of dyadic wavelet transform functions
For image data normalization, assume an optimal scale of 1 and a maximum scale of 2jSince the scale of the tumor image is limited, there are:
defining a discrete sequence of preferential energies as fdThen, the following relationship is obtained:
thus, any dimension 2 can be obtainedJDiscrete signal sequence
The characteristic parameters of the tumor image are obtained through the transformation.
(2) The tumor image characteristic values extracted by the method are classified by using a neural network, the extracted characteristic values are learned through a neuron model, and then the extracted characteristic values are classified. The neural network comprises an input layer, a hidden layer and an output layer, neurons in all layers are connected with one another completely, and neurons in all layers are not connected with one another, and the specific classification learning algorithm is as follows:
connection right V for input layer unit to hidden layer unithi(h 1, 2.. times, n), (i 1, 2.. times, p), the hidden layer unit to output layer unit connection weight Wij(i 1, 2.. times.p), (j 1, 2.. times.q) and a threshold θ of the hidden layer unitiThreshold assignment of element of output layerjAssigning a random value in the interval (-1, + 1);
for sample mode (A)k,Ck) (k ═ 1, 2.., m) the following operations were performed:
① the value of A is sent to the input layer unit and the hidden layer unit via the connection weight matrix V to generate the activation value of the hidden layer unit
Where i is 1, 2, and p, f is a sigmoid function:
② calculating activation values for output layer elements
③ calculating the generalized error of the output layer unit
Wherein j is 1, 2., q,
is the desired output of output layer unit j.
④ calculating hidden layer elements for each djError of (2)
Wherein i is 1, 2,. and p; the above equation is equivalent to back-propagating the error of the output layer unit to the hidden layer;
⑤ adjusting the connection weight of hidden layer to output layer
Δwij=λbidj
Wherein i is 1, 2, p, i is 1, 2, q, λ is learning rate, 0 < λ < 1.
⑥ adjusting the connection weight of input layer to hidden layer
Δvhi=βakei
Wherein h is 1, 2, 1, n and i is 1, 2, p, 0 < β < 1.
⑦ adjusting threshold of output layer unit
Δrj=λdj
Wherein j is 1, 2
⑧ adjusting the threshold of the hidden layer cell
Δθj=βei
Wherein i is 1, 2
Repeating step (2) until an error d of m for k 1, 2jBecomes sufficiently small or becomes 0. The algorithm described above performs the mapping of the input to the output by a process that minimizes the error function.
(3) According to the characteristics, the distance from the radiation source to the center of the tumor is obtained in a multi-angle three-dimensional state, and the radiation beams corresponding to different energy levels (6,8,10,12MeV) are converted into corresponding radiation dose distribution data; analysis was performed based on 70% of the limited ray dose distribution data points obtained, resulting in a function with the best ray selection and dose distribution, and function validation was performed using the remaining 30% data points.
(4) And inputting the determined function into an operating system according to verification for clinical application to obtain the multi-line beam selection method with the optimal biological effect.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.